From 55a20ee7804ab64ac90bcdd4e2868a42829e2784 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yinghai Lu Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 22:23:47 -0700 Subject: x86, kdump: Retore crashkernel= to allocate under 896M Vivek found old kexec-tools does not work new kernel anymore. So change back crashkernel= back to old behavoir, and add crashkernel_high= to let user decide if buffer could be above 4G, and also new kexec-tools will be needed. -v2: let crashkernel=X override crashkernel_high= update description about _high will be ignored by crashkernel=X -v3: update description about kernel-parameters.txt according to Vivek. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366089828-19692-4-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org Acked-by: Vivek Goyal Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin --- kernel/kexec.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/kexec.c b/kernel/kexec.c index bddd3d7a74b6..1b2f73f5f9b9 100644 --- a/kernel/kexec.c +++ b/kernel/kexec.c @@ -1422,6 +1422,15 @@ int __init parse_crashkernel(char *cmdline, "crashkernel="); } +int __init parse_crashkernel_high(char *cmdline, + unsigned long long system_ram, + unsigned long long *crash_size, + unsigned long long *crash_base) +{ + return __parse_crashkernel(cmdline, system_ram, crash_size, crash_base, + "crashkernel_high="); +} + int __init parse_crashkernel_low(char *cmdline, unsigned long long system_ram, unsigned long long *crash_size, -- cgit v1.2.3